Take Control with Restaurant365’s Food Cost Software

Food cost is among the most important metrics for any restaurant, as it directly impacts your menu profitability. With ingredient prices constantly rising and falling, and guest preferences always evolving, managing food costs takes constant work. Having consistent, accurate insight into your food cost inventory can help you price your menu items correctly and make informed decisions about your restaurant’s operations. 

See why more than 40,000 restaurants use R365’s restaurant management software to increase sales, control food costs, and optimize labor.

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Tips to Reduce Your Food Costs

How to Calculate Food Cost Percentage

The food cost percentage is the percentage of your restaurant’s sales that goes towards the cost of the ingredients used to prepare the food. To calculate the food cost percentage, use the following formula:

Food Cost Percentage = (Beginning Inventory + Purchases Ending Inventory) / Food Sales

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Say Hello to Simplicity

Unleash your restaurant's potential with the industry’s best restaurant back office software. R365 eliminates disparate systems and brings your accounting, operations, and payroll together into a single software.

R365 Partner Ecosystem

Frictionless Integrations

R365 makes restaurant vendor management easy. Our leading restaurant software integrates with hundreds of food and liquor distributors, restaurant technologies, and POS systems to give you the restaurant projections you need to drive simplicity, profit, and growth.

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US Foods
Oracle

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Automate Inventory to Control Costs

Simplify inventory counting, easily transfer inventory, and break down menu item costs to spot and take action on problems or opportunities.

purchasing and receiving

Perfect Purchasing and Receiving

Save on Cost of Goods Sold and increase efficiency by automating your purchasing and receiving processes.

commissary

Take Control of Your Commissary

Commissary ensures consistent food production and uniform use of ingredients across your restaurant locations.

recipes

Cook Up Winning Recipes

Gain control of your kitchen operations, sales, and bottom line with recipes that specify how much of each ingredient should be in each dish.

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Empower Managers To Win

Keep your teams in sync on daily activities, customer issues, maintenance problems, and more.

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Forecast With Precision

Confidently predict your labor and inventory needs, whether it’s Super Bowl Sunday or a quiet Monday.

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Schedule Strategically

Create schedules faster and optimize labor costs across multiple locations by predicting needs based on historical sales.

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FAQ

Get answers to the most frequently asked questions by restaurant Operations teams about R365 Store Operations.

There is no additional charge for POS integration. R365 provides direct integration to more than 100 major point of sale systems as a foundational part of the software. 
Yes. The counts are updated in real-time, so more than one person can count simultaneously without duplicate counting.
Yes. All real-time accounting data that’s available to your Accounting team can be accessed by all stakeholders simultaneously from any device with an internet connection.